I am not sure where the disease has caught on but they will ruin you any way they can. Disease ? People worried about their property values. It is legit concern but these people hate anything on any property unless it is hidden totally.

I had this neighbor who would even mow his lawn constant in the snow. Not one object ever on the property. Wires in trees or ??

They complain to the towns/cities and people have to follow up and YES..unsightly wires..ropes...or ?? are guilty. You can argue about your amateur radio rights and pay for attorneys and all that stuff. This town of 60,000 (have not looked up of recent) has a ton of amateur's but you will not see one visible amateur antenna in the town.

I have ranted prior and people think I am nuts. The disease will spread and past/present amateur radio antenna rights ? sure... If you are rich and keep up mint looking property with nothing on it visible (I mean even a lawn chair or garden hose) maybe you will be lucky. BUT terrible looking antennas ? Yes. Antennas for amateur radio with its various frequencies have an ideal model and appearance. Nothing unsightly.

I am not sure where the disease has caught on but they will ruin you any way they can. Disease ? People worried about their property values. It is legit concern but these people hate anything on any property unless it is hidden totally.

And, this is in Connecticut? I'm relocating to upstate NY, and looking for ways to weed this mentality out before I close on a house. I'm thinking 5 acres in the woods will do it. And a big dog.

Thanks for all the input. After analyzing all of your comments, I have concluded that the thief was either 1) high on drugs and needing more, or 2) looking for some solid copper. Now understand that I live on 5 acres of densely wooded terrain, but within the city limits. My neighbors cannot see the dipole even when there are no leaves on the trees. There's been a few thefts in the neighborhood the last few months, including one home break-in. I do live next to a huge public park/golf course. My neighbor, an LEO, says that living next to a large park is the problem. Nuff said.

A variation of the Slinky Dipole, perhaps a copperclad Concertina Dipole. Nothing says "don't touch" like razor wire and on the plus side it might just have a wide bandwidth (I'm thinking something like a cage dipole).

My anatomy prof's wife worked in a Women's HealthClinic. One of the displays in the lobby was about how diaphragms are used for birth control.

Someone started stealing the "Display" diaphragms,so the staff punched holes in the "display diaphragms"to make them useless.

The REALLY funny part is that one young lady came infor Birth Control, and was prescribed a diaphragm andgiven instructions in how to use it, etc.Sure enough......six months later she somes back pregnant.What happened?She saw that the diaphragms on display had holes punchedin them, but hers didn't....so she punched holes in her diaphragm!Talk about not understanding the theory.....

You need to buy a big gun and let the punks in the area see it when you are oitside.I just picked a S/W 44 Mag. When I get out of the car I always have it with me. The theive punks down the street and the ones walking down the middle of the street see it. I have never had a problem here but several others in the area have.

I sure don't mean to add insult to injury, but police chiefs around Kentucky have been emphasizing lately that if people would just lock their vehicles, about 80 to 90 percent of thefts from vehicles could be eliminated.

Lots of out of work people out there doing things the normally would not. A lot of idiots out there to that will steal anything. A few weeks ago a guy was turned into a crispy critter by trying to steal a copper electrical service line off a transformer. He thought it was off.

If its not tied down people will take it. Recently the local kids in my neighborhood had been working on the stop sign right next to my house and it finally fell over, though still attached at the ground.

Last Sunday evening my dogs start going nuts, by the time I get up I see a jeep driving away with the pole of the stop sign sticking out of the passenger window.

I went to work a few hours later and he traded the stop sign for 2 40 ounce Coors Cans, he left them on the sidewalk next to it. I guess he worked on it for a while before just bending it and dropping it, the noise that my dogs heard, but I guess it did the trick because it snapped off at the base.

I called the cops but since I couldn't get a plate because it was too dark, they could care less. Its on some list to be replaced, probably next year sometime.

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